Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Pakenham Telephone Directory from 1973

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In the last post I put up some pages for Cranbourne from an Interim Telephone Directory, produced when the new automatic exchanges were ins...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Cranbourne Telephone Directory from 1973..

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I came across an 'Interim Telephone Directory' for the local area  from 1973.  It covers part of the 59 area - Lang Lang  to Cranbo...
Friday, 9 January 2015

Railways - some interesting resources

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I have written about railways quite a few times in this blog  - my interest doesn't lie in  rolling stock, signalling or railway memorab...
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Monday, 29 December 2014

Thompsons Road and Patrick Thompson

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Thompsons Road runs from Patterson Lakes, through Carrum Downs, Cranbourne and Clyde nearly to the Cardinia Creek, so essentially all the w...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Berwick Nostalgia: a pictorial history of Berwick

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One of my main sources of photographs for Berwick is the book Berwick Nostalgia: a pictorial history of Berwick . It was published by the Be...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Casey Cardinia - Local Government Timeline

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Here is a time line of local government in this area - 1842 -  The Town of Melbourne created - the first local government body in Victori...
Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Papers Past

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Many families have  a New Zealand connection - it was not uncommon in the 1800s for family members to migrate from England to New Zealand, t...